Brooks Burt

Associate Computational Biologist @Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Boston, MA, US

Transforming lab and clinical data using computational methods under the advisory of Christina Cuomo to better understand, diagnose, and eventually help patients overcome infectious fungal diseases- Developed a pathogen classification algorithm in Python and R to accelerate fungal infection diagnosis using a novel molecular diagnostic method which hopes to massively speed up classification of infection giving patients much brighter outcomes- Visualized and analyzed gene expression with R–based drug resistance patterns using Nanostring probe-hybridization data alongside Dr. Roby Bhattacharya, supporting faster clinical decision-making in infectious disease treatment. We are within the final stages of writing a manuscript and hope to see this technology in the field soon- Performed variant calling analysis to quantify single mutation differences between fungal infections within the gut and blood in order to better understand how infectious diseases evolve- Consulted by leading scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to evaluate and visualize models for a drug resistance study; insights contributed to a manuscript currently under final stages of revision.

Harvard Business School Online

Other; CORe Credential of Readiness

Bucknell University

Bachelor of Science